Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 25 April 1901 — Page 5

Cristoe’f Smoke House. I 1 *Next door to Postoffice. 5,-13 Sanif*' shirtwaists at half price at th? Fa> r Store. p er t Lynch left Monday noon for his home’at Dryden. Arkansas, going l, v the way of Winchester. The store room of Yager Ac Hite, ne ar the Erie depot, will be ready for occupancy in about two weeks. Talk’s Juvenile Orchestra gave an entertainment at Willshire Friday evening and met with good success. Marion Baumgartner and wife of Liberty Center, were the guests of E. P. Menefee and family several days last week. The case of the state vs Walker for stealing coal from the Chicago Ac Erie railway company is slated for trial in the circuit court today. Mrs. E. P. Menefee was called to Geneva Tuesday by a message informing her of the very serious illness of her mother, Mrs. S. Cook. When in need of granite ware don’t forget to call at the Fair Store. We carry a complete line of blue, green and gray ware, at prices lower than anyone. A democratic youngster who will some day make things count arrived yesterday at the home of Auditor Boeh. Everyone as fine as silk, according to Abe’s report. Colonel James W. Place arrived home Saturday from West Baden Springs, where he took a weeks course of the famous water and as a result gained considerably in health and appearances. . , The recent rains have stopped work on the excavation for the Studabaker building which would have otherwise been finished by this time. A few days will be all that is necessary for completion of same. Mr. and Mrs. David Murphy of Union township passed through town Mondav on their way home from Wabash where they had been attend ing the funeral of Mr. Murphy’s sister, Mrs. A. Middleton. I F. M. Schirmeyer arrived home from Chicago yesterday morning, where he had been for several days buying telephone supplies for the Lie catur and Berne plants. Among other things was a new switch board for the latter place. In another column we publish an interesting letter from Ralph Knoff, who in company with Will Barkley is looking over affairs in South Africa. The events chronicled are well given and our readers cannot help enjoying, such an epistle from a home lad who is seeing some of the world.

SPECIAL SUIT SALE. Every garment sold at a sacrifice. Sale starting Saturday, April 27, 1901. Bargains Well Worth Seeing.

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ALL TAILORED SUITS that sold from su.oo to >1250, fine shaped jackets, new flare skirts, your choice ~ at this sale UuiuU BARGAINS IN SEPARATE SKIRTS—Finely trimmed black skirts, new flare shape, a bargain at n to $8.50; this sale uJi JU All silk skirts will be sold at a great sacrifice regardlesss of what they cost. Make Your Selections Early.

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I For a complete line of children’s Sils * ,l “ bonnet * I,!.? c e an ?° of tim «on Clover P , . Route Sunday, April 28, 1901 Uet information of local agent. 7-2 ■ tba’ln A , ,erryi J lan entertained on no H L « lbOr( Hry el " b at I * >r home lal Sei ' ondßtreet Friday aftef - F. M. Seirmeyer has been attending to business of importance at Chicago several days this week, returning ; home yesterday. R. C. Drummond left Monday for Auburn to accept a position as assistant superintendent for the Metropolitan Insurance company. The marriage of Miss Rosa Miller and Mr. George Appleman was announced for the first time from the Catholic church last Sunday. New wall paper and new carpets are being placed in the Christian church this week, and the edifice will present a most inviting appearance when completed. Under the innocent name of “sociable there are entertainments given at which deeds are done enough to make the recording angel have ty procure assistants and work over time. Mrs. John S. Peterson is at Indianapolis this week visiting friends and attending the state meeting of the i Eastern Star lodge. Mr. Peterson and two sons will join her tomorrow and visit over Sunday. Buhler Bro's have again began operations at their spoke factory on ' Nuttman Avenue in the northwest part of town. They have a number of orders on hand and will no doubt do a flourishing business. L. C. Miller, Miss Nellie Blackburn and Mrs. John S. Peterson left Tuesdav for Indianapolis where thev are attending the annual meeting o's the Eastern Star State lodge as representatives of the Decatur order John Stoneburner is suffering again from kidney trouble. He has been ill several weeks but improved sufficiently to be about business at his music store. The first of the week he suffered a relapse and is again quite ill. Barlow Bro’s. Minstrels at Bosse’s opera house Friday evening was a per-, formance never excelled in the city. The entire program was interesting, amusing and clean, and good enough for us or anyone else, thank you. The flagman at the G. R. & I. railway has a house of his own and is now , protected from winter winds and sum- ! mer heat in as neat a little cottage as one could wish. The same arrived I Tuesday and is located at the southwest corner of the Monroe street I crossing.

FINE LADIE S MAN TAILORED SUITS.—Very latest styles in black and colors, fine taffeta lined jackets, worth $25.00; this sale vlliUU EXTRA FINE QUALITY SUITS that were $18.50 to $20.00, fine taffetta lined jackets, very newest I shaped skirt and jacket; your choice this sale... U l4s dll MAN TAILORED SUITS in Black, Castor and Brown, taffetta lined jackets, new Hare skirts, a bar- &. - gain at $15.00; this sale U I * SJU

M. F. Rice transacted business at Ridgeville last Friday for County Lumber Company. Miss Rosa Potts, of Massillon, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Gessinger several days this week. The Fair Store has just received the latest patterns in Meakins English Dinner ware. 100 piece dinner set for $7.50 worth $lO. Have you seen the new styles irt shirtwaists! The Fair Store has a i complete line of sample waists which arelieing sold at half price. Falk’s Juvenile Orchestra furnished the music for the Willshire eommencment last Friday evening and are said to have given splendid satisfaction. Mrs. Dell Locke of Bluffton, was here Tuesday evening to attend the Shakespeare banquet. She and Mrs. Jessie Townsend enjoyed yesterday with Fort Wayne friends. Grandmother Gaffer, one of Deca tur’s oldest and most respected ladies, is quite ill and can not recover. She is eighty-one years old, and has lived in this city for fifty years. J. D. Van Camp and family moved today to Linn Grove where the former will take charge of the flouring mill a piece of property of considerable importance to that corner of the earth. Chris Schieman, a well known young man of Friedheim, died Tuesday night after an illness of several years. The funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon from the Friedheim church. Amos Beery, a resident of this county many years ago, now a farmer of lowa, was here several days last week broking up old friends. He has been absent over thirty years and found little here that looked familiar. That Everybody’s Magazine is a periodical to be seriously reckoned With is the opinion of the men who make and sell Monthlies. Many kind things were said of the April issue, but the May number is even better. It is readable from cover to cover. Admirably written and finely illustrated it is comparable with its most expensive competitors rather than with the rest of the ten-cent publications. The best artists are engaged on its pictures: the ablest writerscontribute its articles and stories 1 At the North Indiana conference of the Methodist church at Elwood, the date for the North Indiana conference Epworth League convention was set for the last Thursday in October and to continue over the foliowing Sunday. It will be held at Wabash, in the First ; Methodist church building. Thecon- ’ vention was held in Marion last year. It attracts even a larger attendance than thecouference. as all the ministers are present and in addition the Epworth league officials and many of the societies within the large radius.

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FROM THE HOHE OF THE BOERS - * Ralph Knoff Tells a Splendid Story of Hi» Trip Abroad. At Sea, March 12, 1901. To one and all at home: Well I supposed we would be nearly at our destination by this time and ' I could address this at Cape Town, | but upon learning today we would j likely land at St. Helena Island for water and fresh provisions, I thought I would write my first letter on the Atlantic. Well after writing mv last letter at Frostville on the 10th of February, Will and I left there on the 12th for Shreveport where we stayed until the i4th and not being able to get the ind of work we wanted we left for New Orleans. While at Shrevesport we met Arlie DeVoss and Pete Forbing’s boy, and enjoyed ourselves as best we could on a limited supply of funds. Shrevesport is the best city in the south, none barred after you bar her mud. It is more like a city of the north, has less negroes, wider streets, better buildiugs and more business than any city I have seen in the south. We tried to get on the street car force and I tried to get a position as electric light trimmer, but it was impossible. We got a good look at the historic Red river, which forms the east border of the city. After leaving Shrevesport we went down the Texas & Pacific railway through Alexander, La., to New Orleans. We got off our train eight miles north of the city, at West Wego, on Saturday night late. We stayer! there until Monday morning when we wrote our cards, one apiece, home. We then crossed the river on a ferry and started for New Orleans. Mardi Gras day, the 18th. We went directly to the river and thought we would take a boat up river. We then changed our minds; Will sent the only postal home we had left and we signed for a trip to South Africa, which is supposed to take about two months and five days, but they didn’t guess their time long enough. They pay us sls and return passage to any port in the United States or Canada.

Well now for the trip. We went up river after seeing the Mardi Gras river parade at 2 p. m. Monday and boarded our vessel, the English Steamship Hostilius, bound for Cape Town. We went down river about three miles below the city and dropped anchor for the night, starting the next morning at 6:30. We went down the river past Fort Jackson and Fort St. Phillip which are about two thirds of the way down, we entered the Gulf at 2 p. m. Tuesday and have been going night and day ever since, wit h the exception of two short stops of about an hour. The Gulf was rather rough and of course out of the bunch of fifty men twenty-five were sea sick within two hours. I was helping the vetrinary surgeon check up some medicine when I began to feel hot watei coming up my throat. I made a few quick swallows, then a quicker dash for the side of the vessel and immediately began to feed the fish, which I continued to do for four or five days, and every time T saw anything to eat I fed the fish. I went to the steward and he gave me a dose of whiskey and castor oil and lemon juice to take every day or so and I was all right, only I vet had my hardest lesson to learn, that was to eat the food they gave us. But we got on the good side of the cook with a couple of dollars and we have been getting extra provisions the other fellows know nothing of. We expect to land at Cape Town in about nine days and if 1 don't get a chance to mail this letter at St. Helena I will send it from Cape Town with a P. S. ito it. We have on board, or did have, 964 mules, but so far twenty-five have died. They will take sick and die in thirty minutes. The men have about twenty five mules to take care of, to lie watered and fed hay two times a day and mixed feed at noon. We have a Frenchman, Jew, Spaniard. Mexican, three negroes one of which is a Cuban, and last of all a Boer who is going back to Natal, although I do I not think the captain is aware of the fact. But the biggest fools aboard are the Americans, who should have had more sense than to have taken such a trip for sls. My only hope is that the Boers capture every mule aboard. We expect to unload our mules at Cape Town, but as we only go there for orders we may unload at Port Elizabeth or Durbin, we then expect to be sent by mail steamer to Liver pool and thence to New York; bus nobody knows where we will go. Friday, 22, 7p. m. Well I will now finish my letter. We did not put in at St. Helena, so of course I can add more to this letter. We seen what is known as Table-cloth cloud this morning at a distance of at least UM) miles, but as yet have only gotten a glimpse of Table mountain, around which is Cape Town. We expect to drop anchor tonight liefore mid-night. One week ago this morning at 7 o’clock I witnessed a burial at sea. This is indeed a sorrowful sight. A fireman who had lieen sick for two weeks and who had lieen given very poor care died at five oclock a. m. He was placed in an irun coffin sewed up in a sail, a short prayer was offered, a chapter was read from the bible by the captain and he wasdropped overboard and the ship again started, all lieing over within two hours after ins death. We crossed the equator on the 6th at 10 a m . and by the way, I have a slight interest around there as I lost my hat right there. We have had fine weather ail the voyage, noting lx>tter could be wished for. This is the worst place vou ever saw for not lieing able to find out anything. Nobody will tell you where you are or when you will get anv place. I got a chance to see Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rica, alight house on our left in the Bahamas and Hat Island was the last land to be seen for

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the past twenty-three days. If we go home by the way of Liverpool I hope to get down to London for a few hours. But I must quit building air castles for I don't know any more of our chance of getting a ‘.dimpseof England than you do. I want to get a few trinkets in Africa to send home if I can. I expect to ascend Table mountain which is about UKX) feet high, and get a good view of the surrounding country. I don’t know how the tempature will lie on land, but we are now having the coolest weather we nave had on the trip. I will mail.this letter in the a. m., or as soon as the mail goes ashore, and I expect a letter from home as it has been two months the 14th since I heard from there. If we unload at Cape Town and this lx>at does not go to Liverpool or the United States we will have to land, then I will write a letter to Will Winnes and he can tell you what I don’t know now. Hope all are well and not worrying over me. Ralph. March 23, Sa. in. Arrived in port at Cape Town at 10:30 last night, out of New Orleans 31 days and 16 hours. City 14,(XM) inhabitants very rocky place and an excellent harbor. Knownothing more. Opera house this evening—“A Trip to Tramptown.” Miss Gertrude Moses who has been attending the American Conservatory of Music at Chicago for the past four years, will lie home the first of June and teach a few pupils during the summer who are desirous of taking lessons of her. Any one wishing to study with her cau arrange to do so by seeing Miss Kate Jackson, who is interested in getting up a class. In a recent letter to his father Arlie DeVoss tells of the good fortune of Curry Pile, a former Geneva boy well known here. A short time ago he emigrated to Texas and was in that country when the oil boom came on. Being well acquainted with all the points necessary about an oil booming country he became very much in de mand. He secured some good leases, worked things satisfactorily and soon had the cash coming his way in heaps. He is now, so Arlie says, rated at something like a half million dollars and the sum is still growing. The death of Mrs. Albert Buhler occurred Monday afternoon at the Eastern Hospital at Richmond, where she has been for many months. The remains were brought home the same night and the funeral services were conducted yesterday from the Methodist church, Rev. C. G. Hudson officiating. A husband and two children and many other loved ones and friends remain. The deceased was well known here and had hosts of friends. She was an earnest worker and memlier of the Pocahontas lodge and the Lathes Relief Corps, in whose charge the services wore c nd noted.

J.JANK STATEMENT. Report of the condition of The Old Adams Countv Bank at Decatur, Indiana, in the State of Indiana, at the close of business on April 10. 1001. RESOURCES. boons and discounts.s426,l94 f 5 Overdrafts 4 570 81 Stocks, bonds and mortgages 114.809 65 Banking house 6,856 92 Furniture and ii.xtures 4 241 12 Current expense 906 63 Interest paid 1,714 25 Premiums on Imndh .» 772 00 Other real estate 5.880 30 U. S. bonds $ 12.000 to Due from banks » bankers 112.817 44 Cash and cash Items 32.226 39 $157,073 83 Total. ,$723409 96 LIABILITIES. Capital stock pah! in $120,000 00 Surplus fund . 11,t<k) 00 Undivided profits 1.443 47 Discount, exchange and Intel eat 5.487 75 Rent goto Dividends unpaid 1,320 00 Ind i deposits on demand. $344.N16 02 lnd'l deposits on lime 239,012 72 $583 878 74 Total $723,109 96 State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss: I, K. K. Allison Cashier of The old Adams County Bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true. R. K. Allison, Cashier. Subscribed ami sworn to before me, this 18th day ot April, 1901. Jambs T. Merryman, Notary Public. Com. expires Feb. 18, 1904, JQOTICE TO NON RESIDENTS The state of Indiana, county of Adams, ss. In the Adams circuit court. April term, 19C1. Eugene Lindsey I vs - No. 6,239. AmosT. Dailey, etai ) Complaint tr quiet title. It appearing Irom affidavit filed In the above entitled cause, thui Amos T. Dailey, Eliza Dailey. James Lambert. Lambert, wife of lames Lambert, whose true Christian name is 10 the plaintiff unknown. George C. Bolus. E. .1. Gard, whose true chnstlan name Is to the plaintiff unknown. Fanny O’Brien. Owen O'Brien. Joseph H. laekson. Jackson, wife ot Joseph R Jackson, whose true Christian name is to the plaintiff unknown; theabeve named defendants are non residents of the state of Indiana. Notice is therefor hereby given the said Amos T. Dailey. Eliza Dailey. James Lambert. — Lambert, wife ot James Lambert, whose true ehnstian name is to the plaintiff unknown; George O. Bolua, E. J. Gard, whose true ehtutlan name is to the plaintiff unknown; Fanny O'Brien, Owen O'Brien. Joseph It Jackson. Jackson. wife of Joseph 11. Jackson whose Christian name is to the plaintiff unknown; that they he and appear before the honorable judge el the Adams circuit onu|t on the 15th dav ot June. 1901. the same being tlie doth jiirldlclal day of the present regular term thereof, 10 b* hoiden at the court house In the city of Decatur, commencing on Monday the Mth day of April. A. D. 11*11, and plead by answer or demur to said complaint, or the same will be heard and determined in their absence. Witness my name end the seal of sttnl court hereto affixed, this 24th day of April. 1901. Elmer Johnson. Clerk. 7-3 By James P. Haefilng, Deputy. Merrj man & Schlrmeyer. Atty's, for Pl'tlff. “A Trip to Tramptown” tonight. No county orders will lie given to anti one other than the one to whom the order is written, unless such a request is made in writing, signed by the owner of staid order. Those doing business with office will please remember this. Abe Boch, Auditor. 6-1